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resdivinae t1_j6mrgoy wrote

Reply to comment by Deanocracy in McPherson Square homeless camp to be cleared two months early, NPS says by Ruze42

Decades ago, deinstitutionalization was the humane alternative. Now we seem to be circling back. I think today institutionalization can be done humanely, but we need the political will and funding to start and sustain it.

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Deanocracy t1_j6mzmm0 wrote

Yeah… its wrongly tied to Reagan when in reality it was a large progressive movement and a push to medications as the new wonder drug that would fix it.

“The belief then was widespread that the same scientific researchers who had conjured up antibiotics and vaccines during the outburst of medical discovery in the 50's and 60's had also developed penicillins to cure psychoses and thus revolutionize the treatment of the mentally ill.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html

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monagw t1_j6n4qob wrote

Thank you for sharing this article.

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Blue_5ive t1_j6ox3mm wrote

The issue I have with it is who decides who should be institutionalized? How would safeguards work so that institutions don’t just turn into jail dlc?

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